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Dream It! is chock full of activities, games, and brainstorming questions to help kids discover their passions, identify their strengths and values, create brand-new, unique-to-them dreams...and ultimately open the door to a life full of possibilities! A terrific, full-color, inspiring, fill-in-the-blank journal and workbook for setting life goals. Dream It! will be especially loved by fans of Jeff Kinney’s bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book and Rachel Renee Russell’s Dork Diaries OMG!: All About Me Diary! This playbook is filled with open-ended brainstorming activities to designed to help kids identify their goals and dreams, whatever they are! Dream It! is an effective, evidence-based tool for teaching social-emotional skills, increasing optimistic thinking, and nurturing imagination. For even more games, news, and other resources to turn dreams into reality using the Dream it! Map it! Play it! formula visit www.dreamaplay.com.Do you want to live the biggest, brightest, best life possible? Do you want to create things never seen before? Do you want to do things never done before? Do you want your life to mean something and make a difference? In other words, do you want to feel and be awesome? If so, this book is for you!About the University Study Research has demonstrated the benefits of children learning about dreaming. The book is based on educational, social-emotional, and cognitive development theories, and built on the backbone of our novel dream principles and original research. The games in Dream It! were tested in a university study of the promotion of optimistic thinking in students in 2nd to 8th grade who worked on the book as a weekly class in an after school program. Highlights from the results of the year-long study include: Students who completed the Playbook increased in a measure of optimistic thinking by 22% in the first semester and 17% in the second semester. After completing the Playbook, 100% of students reported that they were thinking more about their goals and future dreams. Nearly 90% of children reported looking forward to their weekly Playbook session. There were no differences in the positive influence of the Playbook by gender or grade. The study concluded that Dream It! is an effective, evidenced-based tool for teaching social-emotional skills and increasing optimistic thinking that is enjoyed by all students.

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Persistent physical symptoms that may not be associated with a known medical disease can be perplexing and distressing for children and families. This book gives mental health professionals a complete understanding of somatic symptoms in 6- to 18-year-olds and presents an innovative treatment approach grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Numerous case examples and sample dialogues illustrate how to collaborate with health care and school professionals and conduct effective assessment, psychoeducation, and intervention, within a biopsychosocial framework. User-friendly features include 36 reproducible handouts, worksheets, and templates. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

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This clever and colorful picture book will invigorate kids to understand their emotions with fun emojis coupled with upbeat rhymes that readers can act out.From glad to sad, silly to worry, love to disgust, and many more, the expert authors use cognitive-behavioral principles to introduce kids to tons of everyday feelings. A reader's note in the back of the book explains the concept of emotions, why they can be labeled as bad, and how they are a gift. It also tells more about the poems, the art, and offers further resources.

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